3.+Literature+List


 * Literature List **

Valerie Newman **//1. Radio Rescue// by Lynne Barasch**This is a story about a young boy who listens in on a rescue radio call. This book takes place during the 1920’s and the wireless radio is a brand new invention. He hears Morse code, which could be interesting for kids to learn about, through the radio and realizes that there is a family in need of help because they are stuck in a flood from the hurricane in Florida. This book is full of primary sources from American children that experiences World War II. It is written through diaries, letters, songs, interviews, and photos. I think students would enjoy this book because it is written by people their own age so they will be able to connect and see what they went through during that time.
 * //2. Growing Up in World War II : 1941- 1945// by Judith Josephson **

This is a short chapter book about a young boy named Frank who sees a spy from a German U-boat off the Florida coast during World War II. There is lots of action and suspense as the boy and his classmate try to prove that the spy is real. This story is based on true events, so students should find this book interesting.
 * //3. The Spy Who Came in from the Sea// by Peggy Nolan **

This story starts out with an African American family sitting around their dinner table. Then the grandmother starts her story about something that happened back in the 1920’s when she saw two African Americans try to vote in Ocoee, Florida. The granddaughter sitting at the dinner table is motivated after hearing this story, so she goes to plant a tree in remembrance.
 * //4. Jemma’s Journey// by Trevor Romain **

Erica Kevern**//1. Florida A to Z -//** **By Susan Jane Ryan** This is a very creative and informative alphabet book describing Florida. Each page is filled with at least seven detailed descriptions of places, famous people, animals, or events. For example, on the page for the letter A, it describes a Jazz musician named Cannonball Adderley, the Floridian Aquifer, the Audubon House, agriculture, the alligator, Apalachicola, and the Atlantic sailfish. It provides dates and facts about each topic discussed as well as a picture. The book makes sure to include people and places from different times, starting with Ponce de Leon and going through to present day.

**//2. People of Florida-// By Bob Knotts** This book focused on explaining how we have such a diverse population in the state of Florida. The first section of the book begins by talking about the Paleo-Indians, then moves into the European explorers, and finally into when different groups of people began to immigrate to Florida. The second section focuses on important Floridians that have impacted the lives of many. Under each person’s name there is a short description of who they were and their accomplishments. Important words are highlighted throughout the book and described in the glossary at the end. Colorful pictures fill each page to help the students with comprehension.

**//3. Sea to Shining Sea: Florida-// By Dennis Brindell Fradin** One of the aspects of this book that stood out was the timeline that was written out in the back of the book. This does an amazing job of summarizing the information presented in the book and highlighting the important elements. There is also a page in the book titled, “Did You Know?” which targets information young students would be able to connect with and find interesting. The Super Bowl, pizza, and a monster movie are only three examples discussed in this section that would grab student’s attention. The majority of the book focuses on history of Florida, highlighting events such as the Civil War, The Great Depression, and important attractions. It also gives the effect these three had on Florida both the growth and the problems.

**//4. Florida//- By Captstone Press, Geography department** <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">This is a book that describes Florida’s history, important people and places as well as the living conditions. There is also a section about geography which will be beneficial when we are talking about the land boom and where it occurred in Florida. This will also be important because you can see the differences in why people chose to live in certain areas of Florida.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Erin Venham **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//1. The Dust Bowl// by David Booth **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">It seems as if the drought has gone on forever and the boy's father is angry and discouraged. Grandfather, however, remembers a time when the drought and the dust were worse than this. He tells them about the Dust Bowl and the way many neighbors abandoned their farms but his family decided to stick it out and struggle through the drought, the cold and the grasshopper plague. The story makes the father decide that he'll stick out the hard times as well.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//2. Bud, Not Buddy// by Christopher Paul Curtis **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Bud holds all the remnants of his once loving home in a cardboard suitcase as he walks from Flint to Grand Rapids, Michigan in search of a man he believes to be his father. Many people lend a hand especially a labor union leader who finds Bud hiding at the side of the road. Bud's irrepressible good nature and innocence make him a breath of fresh air in the grim times of the Great Depression.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//3. The 1920s: from Prohibition to Charles Lindbergh by Stephen Feinsteir// **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This book is an overview of the second decade of the 20th century. In the section on lifestyles, the standard of living is discussed along with the many conveniences introduced during this time. Fashion trends, music, Prohibition, recreational activities, talkie movies, the Harlem Renaissance, the Lost Generation, and sports are touched on, as are the political atmosphere in the United States and abroad and the beginnings of the Great Depression.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Ashley Dannemiller <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Book list:**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//4. Looking for the New Deal: Florida women’s letters during the Great Depression// edited by Elna C. Green **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials asking for relief assistance.
 * 1) <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">//Turtle in Paradise//
 * <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">By Jennifer L. Holm
 * <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Turtle, a young girl sent to live in Florida with relatives during the Great Depression, is a girl who has seen much of the world. In this children’s novel, the author depicts the life Turtle lives in Key West with relatives she has never met and the things she learns about history and family while there.
 * 1) <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> //The Spy Who Came in From the Sea//
 * <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">By Peggy Nolan
 * <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">A young boy moves to Florida during World War II who is known for exaggerating stories begins to tell people he sees a German spy off the Florida coast, when no one believes his, he entrusts in a new friend to help get the word out about the spy.
 * 1) <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">//Blood Moon Rider//
 * <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">By Zack C. Waters
 * <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This story, that takes place in Florida during World War II, tells the tale of Harley Wallace and his sufferings. After his father is killed in the war he is forced to live with his angry grandfather when mysterious things begin happening. The story continues on with adventures in the Gulf with German U-boats and the war hitting closer to home than Harley’s expects.
 * 1) <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">//Kidnapped in Key West//
 * <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">By Edwina Raffa, Annelle Rigsby
 * <span style="color: #767ef4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This story, that takes place in the early 1920’s in Florida, tells the tale of a young, mischievous boy named Eddie Malone who finds himself in trouble in Key West while on one of his many adventures and he’s not sure how to get himself out of this one.

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